WHO WE ARE
We are developers, designers, and product leaders united by our drive to create impact.
We’re on a mission to help solve the world’s most important challenges by developing impactful software solutions.
Discover Our VisionMEET THE LEADERSHIP TEAM
We’ve built successful digital platforms and products at global enterprises, leading technology firms, and venture-backed startups.


Rakesh Malhotra
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
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“We value trust and transparency in a partnership, and an organization—it’s the foundation of Nuvalence. Our clients trust us with their most important challenges and our teams count on each other to deliver extraordinary outcomes on their behalf.”
Rakesh is a product management leader with over 20 years of experience at both startups and large cloud platform companies including Microsoft. Rakesh led Microsoft’s foray into the virtualization market and pioneered early enterprise “platform as a service” offerings. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada.
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Sinclair Schuller
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
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“We take on a client’s platform opportunity as our own. How? We apply product-centric thinking to align with a client’s need to produce market-ready platforms.”
Sinclair was the founder and CEO of $56MM venture backed enterprise platform company Apprenda (acquired by Atos) and a well known industry thought leader. Sinclair is a former software engineer at Morgan Stanley with expertise in cloud, OSS and distributed systems. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.
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Abraham Sultan
Co-Founder, Partner
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“We are known for being a Partner. We help strategize, build platforms, plan go-to-markets, and overall ensure long-term success. It’s important for us to focus on our clients’ goals, and help achieve them.”
Abe built and ran a 50 person engineering organization at the venture backed startup Apprenda (acquired by Atos) where he was also a co-founder. He has expertise in agile engineering, cloud platforms and application modernization architecture. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.
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Mike Jazayeri
Partner
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“We approach client engagements with a simple motto: focus on great outcomes. This means the solutions we deliver must align with clear and measurable client objectives. This means a laser focus on simple yet powerful user and developer experiences.”
Mike is a veteran product leader with 20 years of experience at Microsoft and Google. He’s led teams delivering consumer and enterprise products, from operating systems to SDKs to well known consumer apps. Mike was also VP of Software at a venture-funded rocket company and consults with a private equity firm on product and GTM strategy for B2B SaaS businesses. Mike has an MBA from the University of Washington.
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Michael Michael
General Manager
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“We take extreme accountability for delivering value to our clients. Our goal goes beyond a statement of work or any designated role—we deliver results, wear multiple hats, and fly at whatever altitude is necessary to produce great outcomes.”
Michael is a veteran product leader with 20 years of experience at both startups and large cloud platform companies like Microsoft and VMware. He’s led teams delivering enterprise revenue-generating and open source software in the areas of storage, backup, virtualization, application modernization, and cloud native platforms. Michael held multiple technical leadership positions in CNCF graduated and incubating projects and has 14 patents to his name. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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John Feminella
General Manager
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“What I love most about Nuvalence isn’t just the incredible people I work alongside or the many clients I get to solve high-impact problems for. It’s how we bring those aspects together to make big visions reality with modern, novel approaches to challenging technology and product problems.”
John is a 15-year veteran of the software industry who loves building both businesses and software. He previously sold his consulting firm to Accenture, led strategic organizations of hundreds of people at Pivotal and ThoughtWorks, and is a contributor to some of the world’s biggest open-source projects, including Kubernetes and the Rust programming language.
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Gavin Hogan
General Manager
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“We are relentlessly focused on client outcomes. While we are certain to bring cutting-edge technology to bear in delivering a solution, it’s the core client objectives with which we’re obsessed.”
Gavin is an experienced software industry executive with 16 years of experience working on commercial and public sector software products. Prior to joining Nuvalance, Gavin was the SVP of Engineering at CommerceHub where he led a multi disciplinary team of 150 software engineers and supported the e-commerce operations of 18 of the top 25 retailers in North America. Gavin holds a bachelors of Computer Science and an MBA from the University at Albany.
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OUR PRINCIPLES & VALUES
We are unflinching in our drive for results, but we care just as much about how those results are achieved. Our values are foundational to who we are and everything that we accomplish.
OUR PRINCIPLES

Teach & Be Taught
We listen and learn from our clients so we can better help them achieve their goals, while humbly teaching them what we know to leave them better than before they knew us.

Understand the Context
All organizations operate within a set of constraints: sometimes we challenge them, sometimes we have to accept them as our own. Whatever the context, we always produce the best outcome possible.

Be Loyal to the Outcome
We start with the end-state and work backward from there to design a path to success for our clients. We never say, “this is not my job.”

Never Compromise Thoroughness
Thoroughness is a reflection of how much we care. We are detail-oriented and committed to execution excellence. We never deliver work to our clients that we are not proud of.

Measure Our Client’s Success
Defining and internalizing what ‘success’ looks like for our clients is foundational to us. There is no circumstance where we can be successful without the success of our clients.

Identify Patterns
We identify patterns in approach and behavior across our clients and create solution blueprints. This ensures time efficiency and that our clients benefit from other client learnings.

Act as though resources are scarce
We always always ask ourselves if we can accomplish the same task with less. Time, budget, people, and infrastructure should always be protected.

Always have actions and goals
We provide plans with the intention to act, and always measure the impact against a goal or customer outcome.
OUR VALUES

Enjoy the process
We started this company to work among friends and have fun every minute of the way. We will never compromise on this. Fostering a culture of open communication, transparency, and accountability is something we work at every day.

Challenge yourself
We believe in empowering our team members to successfully navigate challenging environments, while letting them know that they have support along the way. We always embrace challenges and are determined to make an impact in everything we do.

Take chances
We know many people achieve success in their careers when somebody is willing to take a chance on them. We don’t just focus on what you have done, we care way more about what you could do. We believe that there is nothing that cannot be learned, only what we haven’t learned yet.
OUR PRINCIPLES & VALUES
We are unflinching in our drive for results, but we care just as much about how those results are achieved. Our values are foundational to who we are and everything that we accomplish.
PRINCIPLES
VALUES

Teach & Be Taught
We listen and learn from our clients so we can better help them achieve their goals, while humbly teaching them what we know to leave them better than before they knew us.

Understand the Context
All organizations operate within a set of constraints: sometimes we challenge them, sometimes we have to accept them as our own. Whatever the context, we always produce the best outcome possible.

Be Loyal to the Outcome
We start with the end-state and work backward from there to design a path to success for our clients. We never say, “this is not my job.”

Never Compromise Thoroughness
Thoroughness is a reflection of how much we care. We are detail-oriented and committed to execution excellence. We never deliver work to our clients that we are not proud of.

Measure Our Client’s Success
Defining and internalizing what ‘success’ looks like for our clients is foundational to us. There is no circumstance where we can be successful without the success of our clients.

Identify Patterns
We identify patterns in approach and behavior across our clients and create solution blueprints. This ensures time efficiency and that our clients benefit from other client learnings.

Act as though resources are scarce
We always always ask ourselves if we can accomplish the same task with less. Time, budget, people, and infrastructure should always be protected.

Always have actions and goals
We provide plans with the intention to act, and always measure the impact against a goal or customer outcome.

Enjoy the process
We started this company to work among friends and have fun every minute of the way. We will never compromise on this. Fostering a culture of open communication, transparency, and accountability is something we work at every day.

Challenge yourself
We believe in empowering our team members to successfully navigate challenging environments, while letting them know that they have support along the way. We always embrace challenges and are determined to make an impact in everything we do.

Take chances
We know many people achieve success in their careers when somebody is willing to take a chance on them. We don’t just focus on what you have done, we care way more about what you could do. We believe that there is nothing that cannot be learned, only what we haven’t learned yet.



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